TY  - JOUR
A1  - Decock, Wim
T1  - Capital confidence : updating Harold Berman’s views on mercantile law and belief systems
T2  - Rechtsgeschichte = Legal History
N2  - "Every time a society finds itself in crisis it instinctively turns its eyes towards its origins and looks there for a sign." With this citation from Octavio Paz, the 1990 Nobel Prize winner in literature, Berman concluded his Law and Revolution: The Formation of the Western Legal Tradition in 1983. There is a sense in which, thirty years later, this quote remains utterly appropriate, certainly at the beginning of a re-assessment of Berman’s thoughts on the particular topic of the religious origins of modern commercial and financial institutions. Five years on from the start of the financial crisis, triggered by the collapse of Lehman Brothers on 15 September 2008, it is worthwhile recalling, perhaps, that the sign perceived by Berman in the history of mercantile law was a sign that pointed towards the fundamental interconnectedness of belief systems and business. Berman was profoundly convinced of the vital, historical link between religion, trust, and economic prosperity. ...
Y1  - 2013
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/52781
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-527819
SN  - 2195-9617
SN  - 1619-4993
N1  - Dieser Beitrag steht unter einer Creative Commons cc-by-nc-nd 3.0
VL  - 21
SP  - 180
EP  - 185
PB  - Max-Planck-Inst. für Europäische Rechtsgeschichte
CY  - Frankfurt, M.
ER  -